Brighter, sharper, and ad-filled: The Kindle Paperwhite review

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Check out the Dealmaster every Monday in October! Top stories: Oct 12 - Oct 19 Features The price of progress: 2012 iPod touch reviewed by Andrew Cunningham Much has changed since the last time Apple updated the iPod touch. Smartphones have become cheaper and more popular, and free-with-contract models are now available from most manufacturers. Android tablets (and e-readers turned tablets) have been introduced and then reduced in price to the same $200-and-up market the iPod touch caters to. Windows 8 is imminent, and it's bringing a host of new touch-enabled devices with it. Read More Features Brighter, sharper, and ad-filled: The Kindle Paperwhite review by Cesar Torres The Kindle, Amazon's E Ink reader, will turn five years old in November. In the course of half a decade, the slab-shaped device captured the imagination (and dollars) of many book readers. Amazon has iterated on the Kindle's design and function several times, adding keyboards, removing keyboards, sharpening the resolutions, and adding touchscreens. Amazon even went so far as to spin off the E Ink Kindle into a new line of LCD tablets, the Kindle Fire. Read More Technology Lab Why I pay extra for "business-class" broadband at home by Lee Hutchinson Compared to other advanced countries, high-speed Internet access in the US is in notoriously sorry shape, with high bills and low customer satisfaction. Even as commercials exhort customers to download music and stream movies, most ISPs are implementing data caps. Netflix and other movie-on-demand services are among the most popular online destinations, accounting for almost 30 percent of peak-time Internet traffic in North America, but using Netflix every night can bump a customer right up against their ISP's download cap. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Sony smartphones won't get Jelly Bean until next year First look: Mozilla's Firefox Marketplace app store for Android Bermuda's golf courses sit on land that's (partly) an African import Kim Dotcom plans new cyberlocker service that feds can't reach Demo of "serious" networking vulnerabilities cancelled at HP's request Heirs of Superman artist can't reclaim their copyright, judge rules Nintendo reveals baffling solution for Wii U's in-game chat Kill the bots: FTC puts a bounty on the heads of robo-telemarketers Good Old Games now on good old OS X Too hot to handle: Triassic temps may have killed tropical species Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.